Holder for insectifuge.



P. POLLARD.

HOLDER FOE INSEGTIFUGE.

APPLICATION TILED 0013.9, 1909.

958,678, PatentedMa'y 17,1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAXTON POLLARD, F NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF '10 JOHN E.LEDIBETTER, 0F NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

HOLDER FOR INSECTIFUGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 17, 1910.

Another object of the invention is to pro-' vide a holder for a stick ofcamphor or other bed bug destroyer connected to the mattress, saidholder being open to permit the camphor to have free access to the air.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one corner of a mattress. showing myinvention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holderdisconnected from the mattress. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modifiedform of my invention.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a mattress or bedspring of any suitable construction having attached to one cornerthereof an insect destroyer holder made in accordance with my invention,said holder comprising an upper disk 2 and alower ring 3 connected by aspaced wire cage comprising bars or strands 4 attached at their ends tosaid disk and ring in any suitable manner. One of the wire bars orstrands 5 is extended to form an attaching pin 6 and a keeper or guard 7at one end thereof. A suitable cap or cover 8 is frictionally secured atone end of the holder. A stick of camphor 9 or other suitablebugdestroying material or compound is disposed within the holder, asshown in Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 3, the stick 10 of insect destroying material orcompound is connected to a wire shank 11, the latter extending throughthe stick 10 and provided with a pin 12 disposed in a plane parallel tothe stick for attachment to a mattress. The wire shank 11 is bent at oneend, as at 13, and the terminal is formed into a guard 14 for the pin12.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a holder made in accordancewith my invention can be quickly attached to or detached from themattress, that any suitable destroying compound ormaterial may bereadily placed within the casing and quickly renewed whenever required,and can be manufactured at very slight cost. It is a well known factthat bed bugs and other insects will not infest a bed where the fumes ofcamphor are present. Other materials of this character may be used inthe holder.

I claim A holder for insectifuge comprising a cage including a disk anda ring. a plurality of wire strands having their opposite ends connectedto said disk and ring,-one of said strands being extended to form asafety pin for connecting the holder to a mattress, and a capfrictionally secured to the ring and serving to seal one end oftheholder.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PAXTON POLLARD.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. RANDOLPH, WM. L. STALLINGS.

